At first glance, Bonanza , a Belgian entry at the Festival Transameriques, presented in English, looks like children’s theatre. Upon entering the Monument National Studio you see a replica of a small village with birdhouse-sized dwellings and houseplant-sized trees on a raked slope of battered tin. Beneath it are five screens, glowing red, soon to flow with images of life in […]

Whenever someone asks me for advice when they’re first starting to garden, I always say the same thing: grow the plants that want to grow in our zone, with all the conditions that are naturally present – and stay away from the finicky stuff. I simply ignored this advice last weekend, however, when I bought […]

There had been rumblings about this all week – all season, really – as 32-year-old Patty Schnyder seemed at times to just be playing out the string. Saturday, she made it official. The Swiss former No. 7 is done. She had been asked, and was a bit testy about it. She just wasn’t ready. Schnyder […]

Top: the yellow-branded Pirelli soft compound, which is the prime tire for the June 12 Canadian Grand Prix. Bottom: the red-branded super-soft compound. Courtesy pirelli.com As if keeping track of the teams that field two cars with virtually identical “paint” schemes isn’t work enough, fans of the Canadian Grand Prix will be keeping tabs on […]

Roland Garros Place: Paris, France Category: Grand Slam Dates: May 22 – June 5, 2011 Purse: €17,520,000 Surface: Clay / Outdoors Saturday, May 28, 2011 Andy Murray made a serious escape in this one, after a nasty twist of the ankle early in the second set of this match. For whatever reason, it was opponent […]